Join organisers, Chris Frauenberger, Judith Good and Narcís Parés, in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose, California, at the Conference for Human-Computer Interaction (CHI 2016), May 7-12, for a workshop designed to expand the focus of technologies for individuals with ASD.  Autism & Technology:  Beyond Assistance & Interventions – technologies designed for people with autism are often focused on their particular functional limitations.  This ignores a rich design space in which technologies could play more meaningful and multi-faceted roles in the complex life-worlds of people with autism.  This one-day workshop at CHI 2016 (Saturday, May 7^th) will explore how to go beyond technologies that narrowly focus on concepts of assistance or intervention.

The following will be discussed throughout the course of the workshop:

• how autism is conceptualised as a disability and how this impacts on possible roles of technologies,
• how to unlock novel design spaces methodologically and
• how to evaluate the experiences of people with autism with technology

Workshop outcomes include a research agenda devised to address gaps identified within workshop activities.  Click here for inquiries.

with thanks to Chris Frauenberger, Judith Good, and Narcís Parés